Mississippi’s Senate race remains too close to call. With just a few thousand outstanding provisional ballots yet to be counted, Democrat Scott Colom leads Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 43 votes out of nearly a million cast. Colom made the issue of affordability central to his campaign; he blasted
Senator Hyde-Smith for saying Mississippians should “pick another protein” if they’re upset over high beef prices. In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper has flipped another Senate seat for Democrats. Cooper defeated Trump-backed MAGA Republican Michael Whatley in the race for the Senate seat left vacant when Republican Thom Tillis decided not to run for reelection, after Tillis publicly clashed with President Trump.